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Campbell reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with
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I'm not belittling anyone's processes. I'd just like people to describe them, instead of using ellipsis and metaphor like "the world... -
I'm not sure if this quite aligns with what @pemerton meant, but my immediate contrast in my head is between a) OSR style play that...
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Reading through the OP a second time, I think that I somewhat agree with the end point and maybe the overall idea that is being...
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I don't think I disagree with much of that - except perhaps in some cases of extreme skill differential: I don't think I really have...
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Campbell reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
I'm not denying that people can imagine X causing Y. We do it all the time. I'm simply saying that imaginary things don't exert actual...
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Campbell reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
No I'm not backpedalling, and no I didn't say that you or anyone else is engaged in self-deception. (And I notice that you don't adduce...
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Campbell reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
The table is inert. It is humans who read the dice, refer to the table, and then make decisions about what they are authoring. As I...
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Campbell reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Yes, absolutely. My goal as a GM is to present a plausible world and scenarios that follow from what’s already happened in play and so...
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Campbell reacted to pemerton's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
This notion of radical difference is one that I don't accept. I mean, I was stumbling towards the sort of play that BW offers in 1986...
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@pemerton Thanks for the response. Personally, I don't see merit in inserting agency as a factor into what constitutes 'skilled play'...
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Campbell reacted to AbdulAlhazred's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
Such things have been sprinkled throughout D&D since days of yore, trust me. Dragon fear aura, various undead, other things here and...
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Campbell replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..I wasn't agency. I was addressing @Faolyn 's this would not fly commentary (which seems very normative) when what flies differs from...
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Campbell reacted to Old Fezziwig's post in the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting. with Like.
And, of course, TB is also a design by Crane and his collaborator, Thor Olavsrud. They use similar tech to very different ends, and I...
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Campbell replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..There are all sorts of things that fly in one game that would not fly in another. Creating a normative standard around what would fly in...
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Campbell replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..No one can really speak to individual games but Burning Wheel games will tend to be more personal and more intimate because the game...